Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy was last updated on 25 June 2022.

Who we are

Our website address site is: https://researchinformationscience.com.

Our social media sites are: Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Group, and Instagram.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on any of our sites we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. If your comment is considered inappropriate, or suspicious, we will decline your comments.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. We also have provided some guidelines as to the types of media we do not accept on any of our sites. Please refer to these within this same Privacy Policy under the subheading, “Embedded content from other websites” for more information.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on this site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If we have made a login function available on this site and you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on any of our sites may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.), but We will not accept any images, videos, or content that shows or refers to all types of pornographic sites, animal abuse, graphic images of crime scenes or victims of crime scenes, graphic images or videos of warfare showing prisoners of war or victims of warfare, acts of terrorism or victims of terrorism, human slavery, or any content that would be considered unlawful or unethical. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Google Advertising Cookies

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

Our privacy policy

Our privacy policy includes the following information:

  • Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

If you have not opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on your site, which is also disclosed in this privacy policy as follows:

  • We hereby notify Our site visitors of the third-party vendors and ad networks serving ads on this Company website.
  • We have provided links to the appropriate vendor and ad network websites to our users.
  • We hereby informed Our users that they may visit these websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Alternatively, we have directed Our users to opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Because publisher sites and laws across countries vary, we’re unable to suggest specific privacy policy language. However, you may wish to review resources such as the Network Advertising Initiative for guidance on drafting a privacy policy. For additional details regarding cookie consent notices, please refer to cookiechoices.org.

Who we share your data with

If we have made a login function available and you request a password reset for this site, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We use third-party Service providers to store your data on a secure server. We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

We also receive anonymous, aggregated statistics about visitors to our social media pages through Facebook Cookies, Facebook Meta Business Suite Products, Instagram, Twitter Analytics, and Pinterest Analytics, and other third-party Service providers. This helps us to understand how people are engaging with our posts and to improve our content for our audience.

For more information about how we analyze your personal data and the third-party Service providers we use, please visit our Google Analytics Privacy Policy or Cookies Policy.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment on any of our sites, the comment and its metadata are retained. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register or complete our forms such as our newsletters signups and contact forms, and have provided their names, phone numbers, email addresses, or any other content on any of our sites, We store the personal information they provide in their user profile on a secure server provided by third-party Service providers. If users have registered using a login function that was made available on this site, then all users can see, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If we had made a login function available on this site and you have an account with us and have left comments that we have approved, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments on any of our sites may require manual approval before the comments are approved, or checked through an automated spam detection service. We cannot guarantee that all spam will be identified correctly even while using spam software. Some comments made on any of our sites, or content sent to us in emails addressed to any of our staff or administrators, may be referred to the appropriate authorities if we suspect the content is inappropriate and/or originates from a questionable source. Or, if we have been notified by the local and/or international authorities of any questionable links, comments, images, media, and anything else that originated from users that used any of our sites, and we are asked to supply information about users’ comments, images, media and anything else involving a criminal investigation, then you will risk having yours and other users information passed on to the relevant local and/or international authorities.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

● By visiting this page on our website: Contact Form

● By sending us an email: Johanna Richardson